The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01
PASTOR AND PEOPLE.

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Kansas.
Dumley-Two hundred dollars. Fogg-
Two hundred dollarsP You must have
bought him at church fair.
Bishop Kip, of the Episcopal Diocese
of Southern California has been paid $10-
600 arrears of salary which the diocese has
owed him for thirteen years.
There is more profit in being what the
Lord has actually made you than trying to
fill big-brain career on a small-brain
capital.-Fan River Advance.
Offer Adam ind Efey had dooken out a
patent on dheir original sinfulness, obey
could have saved dheir boys plenty of
tTouble.-Carl Pretzels Weekly.
Westminster Abbey is being decorated
100000. The Archbishop of Canterbury
is to prepare prayer for the occasion.
Converted cowboy, with pistol-Took yer
Makers name in vain, did yer2 Now, air
yer gwine ter come inter the gospel corral,
or will We remain in yer present state of
sin and misery.
1t is said that Roman Catholic church,
IN New York City has introduced congre-
2ational singing, and great interest is mani
tested in it. Many of the hymns used sac
adapted from Protestant hymnals.
The revision of Luther's bible progresses.
The minor prophets will be completed in
the autumn. The German Government has
granted sum to defray expenses. The Re-
| vision Committee meets at Halle.
"Gecrga," asked the teacher OF aSEnday
school class, "who, above sll other, shall
| you wish to see when you get to heaven2'
| With face Frightening up with anticipa-
ton, the little fellow shouted: "Gerliah"
kr. Mccormick, of brownsville, Ga, ha,
| presented house and lot to each OF the
pastors of the several churches in that city
IS tribute to the good influence which
they exert. He is not member of any
| church.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, OF London, has
| received so many letters urging him against
| going to Brooklyn in June to conduct
memorial service In honor OF the late
| Henry Ward Beeoher, owing to fears that
| the heat may be excessive, has resolved 10
| postpone his visit until October.
The strangest strike on record is that re
ported from the Island of Scio by tn
| st. James Gazette. Many parishes of
| the Greek Church were backward with
| their tithee, and they were inter5icted by
the bishop. The priests stopped their work
of marry ing, bsptiZiDg aud officiating at
burials of the dead, and these matters were
taken in hand by the laity.
Little Nell-Tm awful sorry for poor
nursie. Mamma-Why, pet, your nurse
looks well and happy. Little Nell-But
| the angels won't never know how good
she is, and maybe they'll make mistake
an let her 90 to the bad place. Mamma
Mercy, mel What put that into your
little head2 Little Nell-Why, she says all
her prayers in French.
The Gospel Age is authority for the state
ment that an earnest Christian worker re-
Gently remarked: "Ive no desire to go to
heaven on a bicycle" 1t is very likely
that the earnest divine is too lazy to con-
template such climbing feat without per-
spring, and probably has to be petitioned
sixty times TO carry scuttle OF coal up
the cellar. stairs.
A number of gentlemen in this country
have undertaken to erect monument to
st. Paul in his native city of Tarsus. The
monument will take the practical shape of
training-school for orphans, Of whom
there are great many in Odicia. A mum.
Der OF people have already become inter
ested in the project, and about 81, 800 a
| year has been pledged, sun sufficient to
support about fifty children,
The church army OF the Church of En-
gland which is at work among the poor
by methods modelled, to some extent, after
those OF the Salvation army, has brought
forward for confirmation over 900 adults,
mostly gathered from the street corners
and from public houses; has ], 600 more
adults awaiting confirmation, and has over
5000 adult communicates, who are hum
bic speakers and laborers in the cause OF
| Christ.
The King of Siam has given 81, 440 to
the hospital established by the American
Presbyterian missionaries, and the Queen
has given $500 to thesschools and the Old
Ladies home established by the same
| missionaries. The King has promised
future aid, and has instructed the minister
Of education to place the missionary
schools on the same plane with the govern
! uent schools, and to aid them in the sup
port Of teachers, the furnishing of books,
and in other necessary ways,
Over $50, 900 has been The result from the
first of the annual collections for the negro
and Indian missions ordered for the first
Sunday in Lent, throughout the United
States, by the plenary council of Baltl-
more. This is exclusive of what goes to
the Society for the Propagation of Faith.
1t will be distributed On the return of Car
dinal Gibbons, who, with Bishop Kahn, of
| Wheeling, w. Va, and Bishop Curtis, of
Wilmington, Del, constitute the commits
sion on military work.
A good old church deacon in Michigan,
who was tempted into dabbling a bit in
wheat, picked up the paper one morning
| and read: "a more hellish feeling devel-
oped in the market yesterday" The editor
had written "bullis b" but the good old
deacon laid the paper right down and went
to the telephone and SAID to his broker;
'Sell me out at once for whatever you can
get L have been expecting something
like this for long time, and don't pro-
pose TO have old Satan walk in on me-"
Somebody makes this remark: "Some
churches revive only when they are stirred
up. The life OF their members is for the
most part, menagerie life. They are kept
confined in cages when they would like to
be running in lawlessness. There they lie
all nerveless listless and forlorn; their
tongues protruded in a listless wagging
until some gsy-robed exhibitor, bearing q
flag of his own-some fancy preacher-steps
jauntily into the ring to stir them up, and
then the dismal spot resounds with dismal
life, and this they call revival"
Some of the more liberal minded Church
of England clergymen who chafe under GER
tam church restrictions propose to intro
| duce a bill into the House of Commons
next year, providing for greater liberty for
clergymen and conformist ministers to
preach in other pulpits. In the meantime
arrangements are to be made, If possible, for
the delivery on a given day of religious
lectures by nonconformists in the naves OF
several churches. Efforts are to be made
also for the partici patton in the jubilee